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You can't out-perform your self-image.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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With no attempt there can be no failure with no failure no humiliation.
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In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
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The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself to prompt new questions in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.
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The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.
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Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.
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No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
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